Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:37:03 -0700
From: Diane Ferbrache <Diane.Ferbrache@RENTON.WEDNET.EDU>
Subject: TARGET: literary device or genre?
One of my teachers wants to know:
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What do you call a literary device (or genre of fiction) where the
author claims to be publishing from a found manuscript, but in reality
is creating the story himself?
Dear all,
Preparing to shoot myself in my other foot - my guess is the correct term
would be Historical Metafiction … metafiction being (literally) “fiction
about fiction”, so if there’s a ‘found manuscript’ in the plot, then perhaps
the Historical is an appropriate appellation? But this would depend if the
author’s “claims to be publishing” were from within the context of the
written work, or external to the work. In which case the correct term would
be Fraud :-)
Amanda Credaro
Special Projects Officer
Secondary Science and Mathematics Team,
Learning Design and Resource Development Unit,
Centre for Learning Innovation,
Department of Education and Training
51 Wentworth Rd
Strathfield NSW 2135
Phone 61 2 9715 8630
Facsimile 61 2 9715 8628
E-mail amanda.credaro@det.nsw.edu.au
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